Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
ADYASHANTIThe most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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